Tarry at home travels . Destruction of the Pequots. time knew who his master was when the train-bands stormed the palisades at Mystic. Old Dr. Dwight, President of Yale College,wrote the first guide-book of New England, andthat is excellent reading to this day. I havespoken of it already. In early life, when he wasin his poetical vein, he wrote The Conquest ofCanaan, and when Washington and the armywere besieging Boston in 1775 and 1776 the Yale. Dk. Tijiothy Dwight. 251 CONNECTICUT 253 College tutor came to camp and modestly askedthe different gentlemen there to subscribe forthe printing of h
Tarry at home travels . Destruction of the Pequots. time knew who his master was when the train-bands stormed the palisades at Mystic. Old Dr. Dwight, President of Yale College,wrote the first guide-book of New England, andthat is excellent reading to this day. I havespoken of it already. In early life, when he wasin his poetical vein, he wrote The Conquest ofCanaan, and when Washington and the armywere besieging Boston in 1775 and 1776 the Yale. Dk. Tijiothy Dwight. 251 CONNECTICUT 253 College tutor came to camp and modestly askedthe different gentlemen there to subscribe forthe printing of his poem. My great-uncle, NathanHale, was there, a heutenant on Winter had told his men that they should have allhis pay as bounties if they would enlist whentheir terms expired. But all the same he sub-scribed for ^The Conquest of Canaan. Alas!before the book came to the press Hale was Dr. Dwight, as he was to be, wrote in theseadditional lines in memory of his pupil-patron: — So, when fair Science strove in vain to save,Hale, doubly generous, found an early grave, and so on. In the same poem, I forget how. Dr. Dwightbrings in the Connecticut River. How it got intoThe Conquest of Canaan is not of much im-portance, but it is here that he says: — No watery gleams through fairer valleys drinks the sea a lovelier stream than thine. At that moment the only streams which he couldhave seen were the North River, th
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